I see Article Software advertised that will send your article to hundreds of article directories.
How effective is this? What about duplicate content? I have tried two or three different pieces of Article Software.
It works--I can send out fifty articles in an hour.
The funny thing is that when I send those articles out using Article Software, I find that I don't get as many links from them as if I personally submit them, or I pay somebody to personally submit them.
I don't know why.
I'm a big results person.
If something's not working--a lot of times I won't even ask why.
I'll just move on to the next thing.
Now, that's not always the wisest thing to do.
But, right now, given my business structure, I really apply that eighty-twenty principle.
Eighty-percent of my results come from twenty percent of the work that I do.
And right now, rather than focusing on the eighty percent that doesn't produce results, I just multiply the twenty percent.
Right now what's working for me is personally submitting them by hand.
I'm sure it's boring.
I'm sure it takes time.
But that's how I do it.
Am I telling you that all of the article-software out there is no good? No.
I don't understand why it happens.
Perhaps, some of the better article directories can recognize whether it's coming in from some machine? I'm not technical so I don't know.
Maybe they just don't put as much priority on the articles? I don't know.
All that I know is that it hasn't worked for me.
Nothing against the software itself.
It just doesn't work for me.